Top 25 Belief Quotes of 1762 - Page 14

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Edgar Mitchell

Belief, Methodology, Belief Systems

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

Czeslaw Milosz

People, Belief, Solace

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

Claude M. Bristol

Believe, Believe In Yourself, Belief

Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude M. Bristol (1967). “Magic Of Believing - Law of Attraction”, p.25, Lulu.com

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Clarence Jordan

Belief, Spite, Evidence

Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

Bernard Williams

Belief, Action, Illusion

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Aristotle

Imagination, Soul, Belief

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.67, Aeterna Press

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sarcastic, Belief, Human Bondage

"The Creative Impulse". Harper's Bazar, August 1926.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Salman Rushdie

Belief, Blasphemy

Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

Mark Twain

Opera, Belief, Banging

Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

Dope, Feelings, Belief

Quoted in "The Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy" by Stephen Palmer and Ved P. Varma, Chapter 6, p. 84, 1997.

If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

Laozi

Worry, Taoism, Belief

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Jane Austen

Everyday, World, Belief

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Gustav Klimt

Believe, People, Belief

Gustav Klimt, Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina (2016). “Gustav Klimt Artworks”, p.17, Book and Magazine

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

Frantz Fanon

Choices, Weapons, Belief

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Frank Herbert

Belief, Dangerous, Knowledge Is Dangerous

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.26, Penguin

The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.

F.B. Meyer

Hinder, One Thing, Unbelief

F.B. Meyer (2002). “Abraham: The Obedience of Faith”, p.58, CLC Publications

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Duke Ellington

Taste, Be True To Yourself, Belief

Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

Writing, Belief, Should

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Charles Stanley

Substance, Belief, Behavior

Charles F. Stanley (2003). “Discover Your Destiny”, p.221, Thomas Nelson Inc

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

Cesar Chavez

Giving, Belief, God Help Us

Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

Carter Heyward

Faith, Land, Belief

Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers